Every month Foods Matter runs tastings of different groups of free-from products. The results are published in a table in the monthly magazine; these are now also available on this site - see left-hand side bar.

The tables list the products, their manufacturers, what they are free of, what they actually contain, what our tasters think of them, what they cost and where they are available.

We also 'traffic-light' E numbers in the ingredients lists to make it easier for readers to identify additives that they might wish to avoid for themselves or their families.

Our tasters include members of the in-house team, food professionals, people with dairy, gluten, egg, sugar etc intolerances and people with no dietary restrictions at all as we feel that it is important that we benchmark the products against 'normal' products eaten by 'normal' people.

The tastings are done 'blind' (the tasters do not know which products they are tasting) and we often include a non-free-from version of the product - which does not always, gratifyingly, score as well as the better 'free-from' entries.

Tasters are asked to mark each product out ten, bearing in mind the texture, taste, aroma and look of the product.

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